US forces fighting in Iraq

The US military
denies any special operations forces involvement in combat on 11
September or in three other other incidents listed by the peshmerga. Yet
in interviews with the Guardian, a dozen Kurdish fighters and
commanders said that US special forces troops have been participating in
operations against Isis for months.[. . .]Karwan Hama Tata, a peshmerga volunteer, showed a Guardian reporter a
video which appeared to show two Americans in the midst of the battle
accompanied by three peshmerga fighters. He said: “They fight and they
even fight ahead of the peshmerga. They won’t allow anyone to take
photos of them, but they take photos of everyone.”The American special forces arrived in Kirkuk earlier this year to
train, advise and support peshmerga forces fighting Isis. According to a
Kurdish peshmerga commander, about 30 American special forces
operatives set up an operations room in the city.

A senior peshmerga commander, who did not wish to be named, said: “In
February, for the first time, four American snipers came to south
Kirkuk because we had lost several peshmerga to the Isis snipers.

Of course, Special Ops are engaged in combat.

And that's not to say no one should pay attention.

But if people had paid attention, during the drawdown sold by the bulk of the media as a "withdrawal," Ted Koppel was reporting on this reality on both NBC and NPR.

And we noted it here repeatedly.

Over and over.

So the 'shock' value has worn a little old to those of us who paid attention while it doesn't matter -- and never will -- to those who see Barack Obama as their personal lord and savior.

The Cult of St. Barack will repeatedly ignore reality while pretending to care about Iraq by bringing up the tired topic of Bully Boy Bush.

January 2009 is when Bully Boy thankfully left the White House for good.

Ignoring all that followed -- including Barack's overturning of the 2010 election results in Iraq through the use of The Erbil Agreement -- does not lead to honesty.

The hypocrisy and dishonesty was on full display in the week after Master Sgt Joshua Wheeler died as the prepared letters -- full of the same dishonest talking points -- were all over the country with the war over, and Barack pulling all soldiers out of Iraq and blah blah blah.

Reality will not impact The Cult of St. Barack -- they are resistant to reality.

At this point, they'd have to face their own whorish ways and admit that they willfully lied to themselves and others. That's not happening.

They are like the 28% or so that clung to Bully Boy Bush right up to his last days occupying the White House.

No truths will ever invade their fan boy brains.

Today, the United Nations published their woeful undercounting of the dead and injured for the month of November:

Warning of a further “dramatic” worsening of the humanitarian
situation in Iraq, a senior United Nations relief official today urged
increased international support to assist millions in need and to
rebuild areas retaken from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL) so people can return to their homes “voluntarily and safely.”
“The human cost of the crisis is devastating. We are extremely worried
that all indicators point to a dramatically worsening situation in the
months ahead,” said the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian
Affairs, Kyung-wha Kang in a news release issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
According to the news release, Ms. Kang visited Baghdad and Erbil to
discuss the humanitarian crisis, where she spoke with women “who had
lost virtually everything.” She is currently on a visit to the region,
which will include stops in Jordan and Turkey before wrapping up on
Sunday, 6 December.
Ms. Kang stressed that responding to the basic needs of these people
will require increased capacity, as well as improved access and security
is of utmost importance, adding that insecurity “puts the whole aid
operation in Iraq at risk.”

She's talking around the reality that the 'liberated' areas do not translate into "welcome home" as 'liberators' run around burning homes, looting and more.

Because what stands out is how the Guardian is attempting to sell war.

Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons?

Maybe he got them from Saddam Hussein!

The press lies and then they lie again.

No where in the over long "everything" will you find how the West, led by Bully Boy Bush has been attempting to remove Assad for over a decade now.

The whoring never ends at the Guardian -- which remember never covered the Downing Street Memos (but did cover for Labour's crimes) -- which is why you have to wait until near the end of the long, long article for a brief acknowledgment that the bombs dropped can kill civilians -- but, the Guardian rushes in to assure you, it's the Russian "dumb" bombs.

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